Pietari Inkinen opens two festivals with the DRP
Pietari Inkinen returns to the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie for two festival-opening concerts with music by Jean Sibelius and Gustav Mahler.
On 12 June 2026, Inkinen conducts the orchestra at the opening of the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim at the Festspielhaus Heidenheim. Two days later, on 14 June, the same programme opens the RheinVokal Festival at the Rhein-Mosel-Halle in Koblenz, with a live broadcast on SWR Kultur.
The programme brings together Sibelius’s symphonic fantasy “Pohjola’s Daughter”, a selection of songs for soprano and orchestra, including “Luonnotar”, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Finnish soprano Tuuli Takala joins Inkinen and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie as soloist.
“Scenes from the Ring” in Copenhagen
On September 17 and 18, Pietari Inkinen returns to the DR Symphony Orchestra at Copenhagen’s DR Koncerthuset for two concerts devoted to Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle”.
Pietari Inkinen returns to KBS Symphony Orchestra
On 10 September 2026, Pietari Inkinen returns to the KBS Symphony Orchestra for the orchestra’s 830th Subscription Concert at Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul. The concert marks another reunion with the orchestra he served as Music Director until 2024.
Pietari Inkinen returns to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen returns to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in August for two programmes in Wellington, Auckland and Hamilton.
Concerts in Tokyo and Nagoya
On 1 August, Pietari Inkinen returns to Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall to make his debut with the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo. The following day, the same programme will be performed in Nagoya as part of the celebrations marking the reopening of Shirakawa Hall.